DailyPost 1928 THE SECOND DRONE AGE Before getting into the second drone age, a recap of the first one would not be out of place. The first drone age has been dominated by the US since its first attack using a remotely piloted craft in 2001. Few escapades since 2018 give us the nature of its […]
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DailyPost 1910 FLAW AFTER FLAW – Log4j The complexity of Cyber Security has always overawed at least since the time of Stuxnet, if not earlier. The recent rampages of ransomware has been the continuation and extension of the same saga. The Pegasus story the whole world is aware of and needs no elaboration. Suffice to say, today
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DailyPost 1906 Log4j It seems security has slowly been moved to the private domain. From the security point of view, everything seems to be normal on the face of it. Whatever happens in the cyber security area is still not a matter of concern in this country. The mindset of the watertight compartments of Security and
DailyPost 1904 BLACK CAT – NEW RUST-BASED RANSOMWARE Ransomware can beat COVID-19 at its own game; the mutants, the variants, the infection and plaguing the world with no solution. It is a war of attrition. While in the war against pandemic, we can see visible gains and better understanding and response with time, possibly these encouraging
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DailyPost 1896 PEGASUS CONUNDRUM -THE UNSEEN WAR Pegasus malware of the NSO group of Israel, has become a conundrum for sure. It is a well known global brand, feared for the damage it wrecks and appreciated for the technological wonder that it is. It is the biggest challenge as it stands today and a clear-cut killer
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DailyPost 1888 APPLE, PEGASUS AND PRIVACY Apple has sued the NSO Group in an earnest effort to curb the use of state-sponsored spyware. If we can recall the 2015 San Bernardino Case, a terror case with 14 killed and 22 injured, FBI and Apple got into an encryption dispute.* The phone in question was an
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DailyPost 1859 PEGASUS – JUDICIAL OVERSIGHT “If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.”- George Orwell, 1984 This is how the judgement on the Pegasus saga started. Can there be any secret in the government which is known only to one person? The processes, the procurements, expenditure incurred and substantive
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DailyPost 1855 SEXTORTION It’s not as recent and not as bizarre a mode of crime as it seems to be at the first instance. It has been a part of the criminal’s toolkit for quite some time. Might be because of this, we have camera shutters in the latest laptops. In Feb 2010, Anthony Stanci
DailyPost 1853 NATIONAL CCTV LABORATORY How much have CCTVs changed our lives, it would be very difficult to decide? How much computer vision makes a difference to our lives? What is the mammoth difference between what CCTVs could do a decade back and what it does today? From immigration to fire to accidents to crime detection
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DailyPost 1849 GLOBAL WAR ON RANSOMWARE! Will the global war on ransomware ever happen? The lip service to cyber security has brought us to this pass, and when the dark clouds are visible all across the horizon, we are into the ostrich mode, hiding our head in the sand. While the bad omen was made visible
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DailyPost 1848 GOOGLE REPORT – RANSOMWARE – INDIA 6th In our day-to-day discussion, ransomware is not a topic in this country, it is dubbed as an alien phenomenon, to the extent that figures are also not readily available. Since the WannaCry days, we remain in the state of denial. During WannaCry India was the third most
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